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  • From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: TOHUW WA BOHUW, Gen & Jer. (hyth)
  • Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:15:03 +0100


Yes, very likely if the author meant "the earth had become...", so a
good point. But if he meant "the earth then became..." he would probably
have written Vayhi ha'aretz l'tohu wabohu. But it is always a risky game
to speculate on what the author might have written.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason A. Hare [mailto:language_lover64801 AT yahoo.com]
> Sent: 04 April 2002 09:36
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: TOHUW WA BOHUW, Gen & Jer. (hyth)
>
> Just a small addition. When this argument was raised before (in
casual
> discussion with some friends), I brought this up:
>
> If Genesis 1.2 had been intended to mean "became," the author would
(most
> likely) have written - V'ha'aretz hayetah l'tohu vavohu.
>
> In other words, if the author was meaning to specify that the earth
> "became" Tohu and Bohu, he would have used the L- preposition. As it
is
> written, however, it means simply "was."
>
> Is there no merit to this?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>





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